Look at the flowers in your campus and then at your own face. Whose face looks happier? Why is yours sad? It will remain sad till death. Rarely do you find a joyful man, but rarely do you see a sad flower. A small flower laughs, but a man, even in a big car, cries that his neighbor’s car is bigger. So, who gives you poverty? Does existence give poverty? No, it is society. Even if absolute poverty ends, relative poverty will remain due to our culture, education, and conditioning.
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Questioner: Whenever I visit any temple, I see a lot of children begging on the roads, outside the temple. I give them some money, and also think, that what can I do for them. I often feel, that had they been literate, they would have not been begging like this.
If we are not literate, then what can we do to know ourselves?
Acharya Prashant: First of all, the need for your normal, conventional education, and it’s relation to poverty.
Where does ‘poverty’ come from? Do you see anything in entire existence that is poor, except human beings? There is the grass on the ground, is it ever poor? When there is rain, it is green. And when the Sun would be beating hard, the grass would just hide beneath the surface, with it’s roots intact, only to emerge back again in the rains. There is no poverty. It does not cry, “I am short of resources.”
